| SB1395 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; prohibited discrimination in voting and elections administration; required process for enacting certain covered practices; civil causes of action. Prohibits any voting qualification or any standard, practice, or procedure related to voting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB1168 | Engross
Sine Die | Definition of "abused or neglected child." Conforms the definition of "abused or neglected child" in Title 16.1 (Courts Not of Record) with the definition of the same term in Title 63.2 (Welfare (Social Services)).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SJR333 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Frederick Cameron.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SJR369 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of C. Opal B. Abernathey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SB1226 | Engross
Sine Die | Compensation Board determining staffing and salaries for an attorney for the Commonwealth. Provides that the Compensation Board shall consider workload totals comprehensively, including the use of diversion programs and specialty dockets, when determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1259 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Highway Corporation Act; alteration of certificate of authority; powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission. Requires any application for a transfer, extension, or amendment of a certificate of authority issued under the Virginia ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SJR343 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Charles Wallace Nuttycombe, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| HR268 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Edwin Francis Little.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SB1146 | Engross
Sine Die | Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Conformity of the Commonwealth's taxation system with the Internal Revenue Code; emergency. Advances Virginia's date of conformity with the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2019, to Dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1193 | Engross
Sine Die | Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program. Directs the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish and administer the Dairy Producer Margin Coverage Premium Assistance Program (the Program). The bill creates the Dai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1421 | Engross
Sine Die | Brain injury; definition. Eliminates the requirement that an injury occur before the age of 65 to constitute a brain injury as that term is used in the context of licensure of private providers of behavioral health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SJR359 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending The Lady Chamberlains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1102 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; personal care aides; orientation program. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish an orientation program for all personal care aides who provide self-directed services through the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1309 | Engross
Sine Die | Local stormwater assistance; flood mitigation and protection. Authorizes grants from a local Stormwater Management Fund to be used for flood mitigation and protection measures that are part of a comprehensive flood mitigation and protection plan adop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| SB1335 | Engross
Sine Die | Learner's permits; use of personal communications device. Eliminates the provision prohibiting a holder of a learner's permit to operate a vehicle while using a wireless communication device. Such provision was specific only to the holder of a learne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB1285 | Engross
Sine Die | Vacant buildings; registration. Removes the requirement that a building meet the definition of "derelict building," and instead requires that such building potentially endanger the public health, safety, or welfare in order for the Town of Clifton Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HR270 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Clarke County Office of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1274 | Engross
Sine Die | Government planning; wildlife corridors. Directs various agencies to consider and incorporate, where applicable, wildlife corridors and any recommendation of the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan. The bill directs the Department of Wildlife Resources to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1425 | Engross
Sine Die | Sales and use tax exemption for data centers. Provides that if a data center operator qualifies for the exemption in one locality and seeks to qualify in another, it shall be required to meet a reduced job creation requirement of 25 jobs for purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| SJR360 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Jean Smith Brown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SB1103 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board shall be public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SJR393 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Robert S. Bloxom, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| SB1207 | Engross
Sine Die | Solar and energy storage projects; siting agreements and special exceptions throughout the Commonwealth. Expands existing provisions related to siting agreements and zoning special exceptions for solar projects located in an opportunity zone to inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HR308 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Roots Grow Wings chapter of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| HR311 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the frontline health care workers at Chippenham Hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1282 | Engross
Sine Die | Greenhouse gas emissions inventory; regulations. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to conduct a statewide baseline and projection inventory of all greenhouse gas emissions and to update such inventory every four years. The bill requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| HR310 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the frontline health care workers at Johnston-Willis Hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SJR356 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Lowell Robert Barb.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House |
| HR334 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Rebecca Carter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SJR336 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Frank Shatz.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1104 | Engross
Sine Die | Parole; notice and certification; monthly reports. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall release a prisoner no sooner than 21 business days after the date of notification by the Virginia Parole Board (the Board) to the appropriate attorne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1160 | Engross
Sine Die | Vehicles; liens; abandoned vehicles; removing vehicles involved in accidents. Modernizes and improves enforcement of mechanics’ and storage liens by (i) transferring notification and auction posting requirements to the Department of Motor Vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Transportation by voice vote |
| SB1320 | Engross
Sine Die | Licensed certified midwives; licensure; practice. Defines "practice of licensed certified midwifery" and directs the Boards of Medicine and Nursing to establish criteria for the licensure and renewal of a license as a certified midwife. The bill requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1369 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; definitions; small business. Redefines "small business" for the purpose of programs for the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to allow a cooperative association organized pursuant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB1276 | Engross
Sine Die | Essential health benefits; abortion coverage. Removes the prohibition on the provision of coverage for abortions in any qualified health insurance plan that is sold or offered for sale through a health benefits exchange established or operating in Vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Labor and Commerce by voice vote |
| SB1436 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Health; Eligible Health Care Provider Reserve Directory. Directs the Department of Health to establish an Eligible Health Care Provider Reserve Directory (the Directory) to collect information regarding eligible health care providers in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| SB1468 | Engross
Sine Die | Certifications for victims of qualifying criminal activity. Establishes a process for a state or local law-enforcement agency, an attorney for the Commonwealth, the Attorney General, or any other agency or department employing law-enforcement officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| SB1109 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter referendum; issuance of state general obligation bonds for school facility modernization. Provides for a statewide referendum on the question of whether the General Assembly shall issue state general obligation bonds in the amount of $3 billion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SJR376 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Loudoun Shops Black.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SJR272 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters and the right to vote. Establishes that the sole qualifications to vote in the Commonwealth are being a United States citizen, at least 18 years of age, a resident of the Commonweal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| SB1197 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia housing opportunity tax credit. Establishes, starting in taxable year 2021, a Virginia housing opportunity tax credit, which is equal to the amount of the federal low-income housing tax credit allocated or allowed by the Virginia Housing Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Finance by voice vote |
| SB1254 | Engross
Sine Die | Sports betting; technical amendments. Clarifies the types of events on which sports betting is allowed. The bill clarifies that a permit issued to a casino operator shall not count toward the maximum of 12 permits that the Director of the Virginia Lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote |
| SB1458 | Engross
Sine Die | Secretary of Commerce and Trade; Identity Management Standards Advisory Council. Transfers the management of the Identity Management Standards Advisory Council from the Secretary of Administration to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade. The bill also...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Communications, Technology and Innovation by voice vote |
| SJR379 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Tom Hirst and Magaly Galdo-Hirst.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SJR294 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; costs of education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality. Study;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR346 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending John T. Wells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SB1141 | Engross
Sine Die | Hampton Roads area refuse collection authority; financial planning. Changes various requirements of the Southeastern Public Service Authority (the Authority) when budgeting or incurring debt, including (i) changing the required five-year overall stra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns by voice vote |
| HB1949 | Enroll
Sine Die | County executive form of government; local budgets. Provides that a county that has adopted the county executive form of government (Albemarle and Prince William Counties) may carry over unspent funds from year to year for multiyear capital projects ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1949ER) |
| SB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Produce safety; sunset. Removes the sunset date for Chapter 51.1 (§ 3.2-5146 et seq.) of Title 3.2 on produce safety, which was enacted in 2017 and set to expire upon the effective date of the repeal of certain federal regulations or on July 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote |
| SB1321 | Engross
Sine Die | Confirmatory adoption. Expands the stepparent adoption provisions to allow a person who is not the child's stepparent but has a legitimate interest in the child to file a joint petition for adoption with the child's birth parent or parent by adoption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
